Brookdale Community College
Robert J. Collins Arena
Best Parking: Lot 6 and 7
765 Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ
United States

Admission:

$5.00

Summary:

33rd Annual Colloquium
Featuring: Michael Berenbaum who is a writer, lecturer, and teacher consulting in the conceptual development of museums and the development of historical films. His focus is on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience.

Art Installation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
For those who cannot make the workshop and want to participate materials can be picked up at the Chhange Center after Jan. 20, 2015.
Materials due back Mar. 2, 2015.

This special event features two women at the forefront of the fight to stop violence against women. Lee Ann De Reus is co-founder of Panzi Foundation USA and Beza Kids and Anna Diaz-White, Executive Director of 180 Turning Lives Around. Both women have been assisting women who have been victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Lee Ann De Reus is co-founder of Panzi Foundation USA and Beza Kids. As a scholar-activist, she travels regularly to Panzi Hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to conduct research, develop programs for rape survivors, and inform her advocacy work in the U.S. She also conducts a service project with Penn State students in Rwanda to work with vulnerable children and widows from the 1994 genocide.

The Generations, descendants of Holocaust Survivors, will present the documentary film, A Generation Apart, by Jack Fisher. Jack Fisher, the son of two Holocaust survivors, uses his brothers, his parents and several friends of similar background to help examine the effects of the concentration camps on survivors and their children.

Wednesday Morning Film Series:Oct. 22, Oct. 29, Nov. 5. Films dealing with extraordinary Acts of Rescue during the Holocaust. Discussions and question and answer session to follow by co-founders of Chhange.

Enjoy a Latin American inspired dinner at the Culinary Education Center of the County of Monmouth; 101 Drury Lane, Asbury Park, NJ.
For Dinner reservations and cost call 732-988-3299
Followed by a 7:30 p.m. movie at The Showroom; 707 Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ

Enjoy an evening with Mark Hanis: a dynamic 31 year old and grandchild of four Holocaust survivors. Learn of his achievements as a role model and activist to end genocide. Come also for our annual fundraiser for Chhange. Place a bid on various baskets from local businesses.

Berger's book is an extraordinary memoir, full of pride, tenderness and love.... It is a tribute to the dead and a valentine to the living, not just his parents, but all the tailors, barbers, grocers and chicken farmers he knew as a child -- a surrogate family that would have no connection if not for the magnitude of its shared loss.

Inspire students to create innovative art to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda. Receive Comprehensive Lesson Plan on Genocide/Art Installation and Life Size foam-core form to create your work of art.

Be part of the 20th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda by inspiring your students to create an innovative art installation for our 100 days display.
Please call the center after January 20, 2014 to schedule time to pick up project supplies.

Explore the human rights and education crisis in Uganda through the eyes and experiences of Jane Denny and local students: Kyllian Warman of Brookdale Community College and Lurene Gumina of Monmouth University.

Featuring Chris Bohjalian, Author of N.Y. Times Bestseller and Oprah Book of the Week, The Sandcastle Girls. The Sandcastle Girls, a romantic epic story, relives the Armenian Genocide which took place in Turkey nearly 100 years ago when 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed in an extermination planned by the Ottoman government. The novel is inspired by the author's Armenian heritage and became a New York Times bestseller and an Oprah book of the week.